Principal Advisor - Communications, Copper

Rio Tinto
Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Competitive
May 22, 2022
Jun 19, 2022
70842996
Permanent
Full Time
English
Principal Advisor - Communications, Copper (Americas)
  • Be part of a team that is driven by safety and values
  • Join a business with a strategic focus on being part of the solution to global challenges like decarbonization and sustainable development
  • Make your mark by shaping the dialogue around the role of mining and Copper in the US and the global energy transition
  • Based in Salt Lake City, UT

About the role

All progress begins with pioneers. At Rio Tinto, it begins with you.

We are looking for a Principal Advisor - Communications that will develop and deliver strategic communications in line with our business priorities. The role will play a major role in educating our key audiences including our host communities and the general public, as well as stakeholders like local, regional, and national governments and agencies, civil society, and non-governmental organizations on our industry and our business.

Reporting to the Chief Adviser - External Affairs and Communications, Copper, and working in a collaborative community you will:
  • Drive communications as a business priority, linked to measurable outcomes;
  • Develop and execute US Copper communications strategy;
  • Own and drive messaging and content development across internal and external channels;
  • Work in close collaboration with regional asset teams, and departments and functions including media, brand and external communication, employee communications, communities and social performance et al.;
  • Develop and direct an integrated campaign approach to Copper communications in the region, leveraging Rio Tinto and asset teams' capacity and expertise;
  • Support Copper Operations leadership positioning and profiling - e.g. social media, events, and platforms;
  • Support engagement with relevant trade bodies, forums;
  • Support issues tracking, management, and crisis management;
  • Leverage agency / external support as required;
  • Support and lead ad hoc projects as required;

What you'll bring
  • A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team, and to live by our shared values of care, courage, and curiosity.
  • Advanced knowledge of managing communications across a broad range of platforms, internal and external.
  • Experience in mining or related sectors would be an advantage, but not a requirement;
  • Strong communication skills, both written and oral, and an ability to take highly technical and complex information and deliver a refined message that resonates with various audiences.
  • Spanish language skills will be an advantage.
  • Experience facilitating cross-functional and geographically dispersed teams to coordinate and integrate. Team-oriented, proactive, results-driven, innovative and collaborative in approach, with experience in working in a matrix organization.
  • Ability to build relationships with a wide group of external stakeholders, adversaries as well as supporters.
  • College/University Education: BA education in Journalism or Communications, or related subjects.

What we offer

Be recognized for your contribution, your thinking, and your hard work, and go home knowing you've helped the world progress.
  • A work environment where safety is always the number one priority
  • A competitive salary package with annual cash incentive awards for eligible employees
  • Career development & education assistance to further your ambitions
  • Access top tier family-friendly health and medical programs and pension plan
  • Wellbeing benefits
  • Generous Rio Tinto employee share program
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Ongoing individual wellbeing support for you and your family for personal and professional matters
  • Leave for all of life's reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave)

About Rio Tinto

Every idea, every innovation, every little thing the world calls 'progress' begins with a first step, and someone willing to take it: explorers, inventors, entrepreneurs. Pioneers. For nearly 150 years, Rio Tinto has been a company of pioneers - generations of people spanning the globe, all with the grit and vision to produce materials essential to human progress.

Our iron ore has shaped skylines from Shanghai to Sydney. Our aluminium - the world's first to be certified 'responsible' - helps planes fly and makes cars lighter. Our copper helps wind turbines power cities, and our boron helps feed the world and explore the universe. Our diamonds help us celebrate the best parts of life.

Where you'll be working

Corporate Relations provides expertise and advice across all aspects of communications, brand strategy and positioning, media relations, and stakeholder engagement with customers, employees, and civil society through to governments and the general public.

Every Voice Matters

We are committed to an inclusive environment where people feel comfortable being themselves. We want our people to feel that all voices are heard, all cultures respected and that a variety of perspectives are not only welcome - they are essential to our success. We treat each other fairly and with dignity regardless of race, gender, nationality, ethnic origin, religion, age, sexual orientation, or anything else that makes us different.

At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Indigenous Peoples, women, the LGBTQ+ community, mature workers, people with disabilities, and people from different cultural backgrounds.

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